"To hell with the pancakes, Bonnie," said Damon, tossing the inedible lumps of flour and milk in the trashcan before they had a chance to cool.

But before Bonnie had a chance to answer back and bask in this newfound happiness, Elena had walked into the kitchen.

"Oh crap," she muttered to herself, hiding near Damon and stupidly hoping she couldn't be seen.

"Elena? I thought you went to see Caroline?"

"Yeah, I came to grab my phone. I left it upstairs, I think."

"Oh. Okay. Did you find it?"

She nodded in response but suspiciously inched closer to the vampire as confusion clouded her doe eyes.

"Who were you talking to?"

Damon had three options and only an awkward moment's worth of time to choose one.

One: admit it was Bonnie and explain why he didn't mention her arrival straightaway to Elena which would lead to mentioning the kiss; something she had probably witnessed anyway.

Two: lie and say it was nobody and risk looking like an idiot if Elena had indeed seen him making out with something with his back turned.

And three: ask Elena again if she had found her phone to revert to the previous subject and still risk looking like an idiot because chances are, she had seen him making out with something with his back turned.

But he didn't have to make such a difficult decision just yet because Bonnie stepped out into the open from behind the counter, rambling like she had never rambled before.

"Look, Elena, it just happened and it wasn't supposed to and I'm really sorry. Damon started it but I shouldn't have let it continue for as long as it did and I know I crossed the line. It won't happen again. I know you just got him back but I suppose he just got me back too and got really excited and, well, you know Damon and his reaction to certain things. Anyway, it didn't mean anything so..."

Bonnie stopped herself in her tracks.

She couldn't lie.

Not this time.

"Actually, no," she sighed. "That's a lie. It didn't not mean anything. It...it meant something."

She glanced at Damon, hoping that he would intercede or just nod or give any indication that she was saying the right thing but he didn't even look her way.

The silence was eating away at her fragile state of mind as she waited for an answer.

"Back me up here?"

"Uh..." he managed finally. But it was a response to Elena's question, not Bonnie's.

And that's when it struck the poor witch.

She realised she couldn't be seen.

She also realised she couldn't be heard.

But most of all, she realised that she was back at square one, stuck between supernatural dimensions.

You have got to be kidding me.


AN: Hello...it's me. You're probably wondering if after all these months, I'd try to post...a new chapter...for you guys...

Crappy cliches aside, welcome back to my fanfic! I can't even begin to explain why I was away for so long but a lovely fan message convinced me to submerge myself in the world of fanfics again so here I am. Thank you to all the new readers who decided to follow this fanfic in the hopes that I'd post a new chapter. Means a lot to me!

Btdubs, I haven't watched the show since last Christmas so I have no clue what's going on. Thus, everything I write from now on will be entirely made up and unrelated to the tv plot. I'm open to any new ideas/suggestions so don't be shy. Enjoy!